Re: Open relays and open proxies

From: Joe Abley

Date: Fri Apr 25 11:21:17 2003

On Friday, Apr 25, 2003, at 08:17 Canada/Eastern, Jack Bates wrote:

With the exception of Joe-Jobs, spamvertised websites should be
terminated.

If this were rigorously enforced, it would provide a mechanism for
anybody with an axe to grind to take out any web site on the planet.
Once all the commercial web sites had been taken off the air, the
commercial web hosters would go out of business. Once all the web
hosters were off the air, the access providers would go out of business
(since there would be no interweb left for their customers to look at).

Billions of people stumble, blinking, out into the sunlight, deprived
of their only usual means of communication with friends, and discover
that they have neighbours...

... and then all die of SARS from the resulting unnatural proximity to
other humans.

I say, do it. Let's take the humans out of the picture, and give the
insects a chance to run the planet.